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CXXI. DIPSACE^. 



Scabious. Fruit (mag.). 



Scabious (Scat/iota atropurpurea). 

 Capitnlum. 



Scabious. 

 Jtey flower cut vertically (mag.). 



Scabious. 



Ray flower seen in front 

 (mag.). 



Scabious. 

 Ray flower in profile (mag.). 



Scabious. 

 Diagram. 



Scabious. 

 Fruit cut vertically (mag.). 



Scabious. 



Unopened capitnlum, seen 

 from behind. 



Scabious. 



Disk flower, cut vertically 

 (mag.). 



Dipioevs. 



Fruit cut 



vertically (mag.). 



DipsacecB are so nearly allied to Valerianece that A. L. de Jussieu placed them in the same family 

 (see Valerianeat). They resemble Composites in their inflorescence, which in all the genera except 

 Morina is an involucrate capitulum, in their usually paleaceous receptacle, epigynous staminiferous 

 corolla, one-celled ovary crowned by a toothed or plumose calyx, and solitary anatropous ovule; they 

 differ in the separate involucel of each flower, imbricate aestivation, nervation of the corolla, free anthers, 

 pendulous ovule, simple style, terminal stigma, and albuminous embryo. They approach Calycerefe in 



